Affinity Photo and Designer 1.6 have launched!

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What's New in Affinity Designer 1.6

• New light user interface option
• New stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools
• Metal 2 accelerated view optimised for macOS High Sierra
• New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites
• New Glyph browser
• Improved view pan/zoom performance
• Improved performance with large documents
• Align to key items
• Text frame vertical alignment options
• Fit frame to text
• Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients
• Added 'Unlock All' and 'Show All' commands
• Numerous bug fixes and other improvements

What's New in Affinity Photo 1.6

• New light user interface option
• New stroke stabiliser for all pencil and brush tools
• New "Edit In" integration with Apple Photos
• Metal 2 accelerated view optimised for macOS High Sierra
• Improved view pan/zoom performance and
• Improved performance with large documents
• New font chooser dropdown with recents, used fonts and favourites
• New Glyph browser
• Align to key items
• Text frame vertical alignment options
• Fit frame to text
• Custom brush wet edges
• Outlier stacking mode
• Improved Photoshop Plugin support
• Improved Live Filters performance
• Many PDF export improvements including vector export of multi-stop gradients
• Numerous bug fixes and other improvements

Source
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/in...affinity-photo-and-designer-16-have-launched/